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Nagasaki, Japan Long Caption: Japanese cardinal points are marked in the corners of the map, local craft and western sailing ships are depicted. This is a folding map with paper a title sheet pasted verso. After two centuries of restriction on foreign trade, Nagasaki gradually reopened during the 1850s. This map shows Nagasaki as it was in the first year of the Kyowa era (1801). Credit line: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Object: G273:5/9 Artist: Baikado Date: circa 1860 Medium: woodcut; rice paper Size: 370 mm x 470 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.